Tag: SECURITYBREACH

A previously classified incident from 2008, in which a foreign agent placed an infected thumb drive on a U.S. military laptop in the Middle East and penetrated both classified and unclassified networks, has just been confirmed by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III as "the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever." ...

Senate candidate Norm Coleman has a massive, self-inflicted headache to deal with after the personal information for thousands of his donors' was leaked in January. Supporters were notified, not by the Coleman campaign (which had known about the security breach since January), but via an e-mail from the nonprofit Wikileaks site on Tuesday. Cullen Sheehan, Coleman's campaign manager, sent out ...

If you're a company that specializes in online security and anti-virus solutions, here's a tip: Make sure your Web site doesn't get hacked. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened to security firm F-Secure's Web site last week. The same hacker also hit the sites of Russian firm Kaspersky, and the Portugal-based BitDefender -- all within a week, and all using the same method. While no ...